TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Month: October 2008

  • Bruce Catton and how did I get addicted to the CW

    Hi all, Once again its been a very long time since I posted here. But I wanted to share some thoughts on a favorite author of mind I was about 12 to 13 years old. So that would have been 1964.  For Christmas that year, I recieved the American Heritage book on the Civil War. […]

  • A House Divided – A New Civil War Blog

    Linda Wheeler of the Washington Post has added a new Civil War blog, A House Divided, to the ever-growing Civil War blogosphere.  The introductory post has the following interesting information: Civil War columnist Linda Wheeler brings her successful “A House Divided” writings to washingtonpost.com after a 10-year run as a column in the newspaper. Sometimes […]

  • Ironclads: American Civil War Released

    In early August, I mentioned a demo had been released for Ironclads: American Civil War, a computer game from Russian publisher Totem Games.  Eddy Sterckx, a regular at the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical usenet group, just discovered the game has been released.  Usually I’m pretty excited about any new Civil War games, but proceed with caution on this […]

  • Mine Run Campaign Addendum

    Since I posted last week, History Channel forum poster “sfcdan” has written parts 6-9 of his Mine Run Campaign series.  Here are the links to the individual posts.  Go check them out! Mine Run Part 6 – Payne’s Farm Mine Run Part 7 – New Hope Church Mine Run Part 8 – Parker’s Store Mine […]

  • The Civil War in the classroom

    Cross posted at Civil War History. Given this very interesting post by Brett, I thought I would bring up an interesting couple of ideas for teaching the war in the classroom and see what you all think. While understanding slavery and emancipation are essential to understanding the war years, I do feel that some classes […]

  • Are Slavery and Emancipation the ONLY Things Worth Studying from the American Civil War?

    There have been quite a few mentions of the Gettysburg Visitor Center over the past few weeks in the Civil War blogosphere, and some of this has spilled over into the question of what type of interpretation should be seen at our Civil War battlefield visitor centers. John Hennessy, National Park Service Chief Historian at […]

  • Short Takes

    A group of high school students attend a Civil War re-enactment and have an authentic experience. No, they didn’t get shot, they got sick, which was far more common. Eighth-graders from West Valley Middle School who fell ill were wearing the blue T-shirts on a field trip Friday to a Civil War re-enactment in East […]